The Life and Work of S. M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History

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Indiana University Press, 22.01.1991 - 284 Seiten

" . . . a welcome and unusual glimpse of the private side of one of East European Jewry's most influential public figures." —American Historical Review

" . . . an absorbing introduction to one of the truly original thinkers in modern Jewish history." —Heritage Southwest Jewish Press

"For a complete picture of the Polish/Russian world of the twentieth century, this book should be required reading." —AJL Newsletter

This is a memoir and biography by an extraordinary woman about her father, a pioneer in the field of Jewish history as well as a leading political activist among East European Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book chronicles Dubnov's personal, professional, and ideological development during a period of intense change for the Jews of the Russian Empire, from the Haskalah to the first years of World War II.

 

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Historian and Ideologist
1
Sources
39
On the School Bench
43
Rebellion
46
Wandering
52
In the Northern Capital
59
The Preacher of Free Thought
70
At the Crossroads
76
The Moral of Terrible Days
134
Back in St Petersburg
140
Unity in Variety
145
At Work on the Magnum Opus
152
On the Eve of War
158
The Thunder of Guns
163
The Great Upheaval
169
An Island amid the Elements
179

History Was Revealed to Me
83
The Odessa Literary Circle
90
The Spirit of the Past
97
Works and Days
101
Between Journalism and Poetry
107
Thoughts on Old and New Jewry
112
Farewell to the South
119
In the Jerusalem of Lithuania
125
Year of Revolution
129
Meeting the West
187
The Golden Autumn
199
Seventieth Birthday
205
Victory over Loneliness
218
Work Continues
224
The Twilight of Europe
230
GLOSSARY
257
Urheberrecht

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TitelThe Life and Work of S. M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History
The Modern Jewish Experience
Autor/inSofii͡a Dubnova-Ėrlikh
HerausgeberJeffrey Shandler
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagIndiana University Press, 1991
ISBN025331836X, 9780253318367
Länge284 Seiten
  
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